RESEARCH GROUP

VISITING SCIENTISTS

Jerold M. Schultz (U. Delaware, 92-93), Aurora Nogales (C.S.I.C. Spain, 96-97, 00), DuFei Fang (97-), Francisco Medellin-Rodriguez (Zona Universitaria, Mexico, 99-00), Raj Somani (99-), Hyun H. Song (Hannam U., Korea, 00-01), Carlos-Alberto Avila-Orta (Zona Universitaria, 00-01), Tohei Moritani (01-), Shigeyuki Toki (01-), Daisuke Kawakami (Toray Company, Japan, 01-03), Gad Marom (Hebrew U. Jerusalem, Israel, 02), Sung  Soo Yoon (KAIST, 02), Chirakkal Krishnan (02-); Seoul Chang (Inha U., Korea, 03-), Daniel Dikovsky (Hebrew U. Jerusalem, 03-), Jose M. Mata-Padilla (Zona Universitaria, 03), Leonardo Aurelio Baldenegro Pérez (Zona Universitaria, 03), Alejandro Sanz (C.S.I.C. Spain, 04), Jun Kikuma (Asahi Chemical, 05-06), Raj Somani (99-07, ABC laboratory), Rossana Iervolino (Italy, 06-07), Shinichi Yamazaki (Okayama University, 07-08), Jose M. Mata-Padilla (Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí in México, 03), Sofia Vega (Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí in México, 06), Miguel Waldo (Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí in México, 06), Sureerut Amnuaypornsri (Mahidol University, Thailand, 07), Victor Cruz Delgado (Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí in México, 08), Adriana Espinoza Martinez (Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí in México, 08)

POST DOCTORAL SCIENTISTS

Ravi Verma (94-95), Sonke Seifert (96-97), Fengji Yeh (97-), Zhigang Wang (97-), Lizhi Liu (97-02), Weidong Liu (98-00), Shaofeng Ran (98-02), Jay Young Kim (99-00), Michael Gelfer (00-), Kwang Sok Kim (00-), Igors Sics (01-), Yan-Mei Wang (01-02); Li-Ming Zhang (01-02), Carlos-Alberto Avila-Orta (02-), In Chul Um (02-), Xinhua “Steven” Zong (02-03), Jinglu Chen (02-05), Weidong He (03-05), Xuehui Wang (03-05), Antonios Kelarakis (03-05), Michael Gelfer (00-05, Dow Chemical), Carlos-Alberto Avila-Orta (02-04, Centro de Investigacion en Quimica Aplicada, Mexico), Igors Sics (01-06, ALBA, Consortium for Exploitation of Synchrotron Light Laboratory), Hongliang Jiang (05-07, Zhejiang University, China), Xuming Chen (06, Dow Chemical), Jeffrey McCutcheon (University of Connecticut, 07), Lixia Rong(04-), Hongyang Ma(05-), Jonathan Chiu(05-), Jie Zhu(06-), Zhaohui Tang(06-), Changquan Qiu(07-), Jie Cai(08-)

PH.D. STUDENTS

(Past) Ravi Verma (VPI, 94), Wu Wang (UD, 96), Maria van Eijndhoven, (UD, 97) Joshua Samon (UD, 00), Jing Wu (UD, 00), Xinhua “Steven” Zong (02), Xuan “Bruce” Fu (02), Ling Yang(05), Xuming Chen(07), Pranav Nawani(08) Jong Kahk Keum(08), Kyunghwan Yoon(08),Hongwen Zhou(09)

(Current)  Feng Zuo, Yimin Mao, Nan Li, Xiaowei Li, Ran Wang, Yang Liu

M.S. STUDENTS

(Past) Henglin Yang (00), Meiki Yu (01), Kim Luu (03, BME), Kevin Lau (04), Jun Wu (05) Priya Desai (06), Derya Cebeci (06)

Past (shared with B. Chu)

Sharon Cruz (00), Meiki Yu (01), Kim Luu (03, BME), Charles Ching Chang (04), Christopher Pang (07), Randy K. Ramcharitar (07)

Current (shared with B. Chu)

Shifeng Han (07), Lewis Yung (08)

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Robert Mou (98, - Estee Lauder), Sangkyu Kim (98-99), Jason Lopez (98-99), Richard Gross (98-99), Amy Brenner (Southern Illinois State, REU-98), Chris Kopps (98), Anastasia Zhadina (99), Tritin Tran (99), Wanda Chen (99-01), Jean Julmis (00-01), Nadera Osmani (01), Kwadwo Bonsu (01,02), Alfred Adomako (01), Coleigne Stone (01), Alex Chen (01), Jason Liang (01), Christopher Jahns (01,02), Kristen M. Belano (Darmouth College, 01), Alex Mejia (01), Laura Nollah (01), Avi Arora (02), An Song (03), Alex Lodge (Grambling College, REU-03), Luciano Santillan (Southern Michigan Tech, REU-04), Theodore Sterling (04), Matthew Lundwall (04), Christopher Pang (05), Charles Qi-Hong Chen (05), Joseph Gaiteri (King's College PA, REU-06), Matthew Windt (Texas A&M, 06). Ellena Soo-Jeong Kim (06) Behnaz Ghahremani (06) Wing-Shan Lau (06) Eric Gokstein (06), Jessica Louie (07), Ken-Wing Lee (07), Jessica Rae Levin (Cornell, REU-07), Dian Yang (XingHua University, China)

Current (some shared with B. Chu)

Karin Wang (06-08), Kadhambari Sridhar (07-08), Ka Fut Poon (07-08), Kwong Pang Cheung (08-), Esther Kwak (07,08), Nickhil Rokkam (08), Mina Shokralla (08), Juan Vasquez (08), Shifeng Han (07), Andrey Kopot (08)

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Ravneet Kaur (Great Neck South, 99), Stephanie Duclair (Brooklyn Technical High School, 00 - Simons Fellowship), Douglas Bush (East Islip, 00), James Bush (East Islip, 00), Henry Kung (Syosset, 01), Tien-Lun Chuang (Syosset, 01), Brian Choi (East Islip, 01), Adeel Khan (East Islip, 01), Jackie Fu (East Islip, 02), Zhen Ni Zhou (Brooklyn Technical High School, 02 – Simons Fellowship), Michael Sherman (Wheatley, 02), Louise Wen (Dominican Academy, NYC, 03 – Simons Fellowship), Sharon Chou (Great Neck South HS, 03 – Simons Fellowship), Matthew Windt (Commack High school, 04), Jonathan Lai (Smithtown High, 04), Matthew Palatnik (Commack High school, 04), Andrew Kim (Herricks High School, 05), Lisa Wang (Ward Melville High School, 05), Vikas Anand (Jericho High School, 05,06), Esther Kwak (Jericho High School, 05,06), Connie Kim (Hunter College High School - Simons Fellowship, 05), Jimmy Hom (Syosset Public High School, 05), Jeffrey Tam (Oceanside High School, 06,07), Linda Zhou (06), Soo Jeong (Ellena) Kim (Jericho High School. 06), Zachary Hollander (Great Neck North High School, 06,07), Max Soni (Jericho High School, 06,07), Sharon Ji (Wheatley High School, 06,07,08), Michael Yang (Oceanside High School, 06,07,08), Julie Zilnicki (Riverhead High School, 07), Solomon V. Swartz (Jericho High School, 08), Paul Wyrembak, (Ward Melville High School, 08), Cole Diamond (Great Nech North High School, 08), Katherine Zhu (Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, 08). Brandon Li (Jericho Senior High School, 08), Yang Liu (Jericho Senior High School, 08).

Professors Chu/Hsiao's  Group 

Shigeyuki Toki

email: stoki@notes.cc,sunysb.edu

phone:631-632-6633(o)

office: Rm.314, Chem. Dept.

research area: Mechanical properties on Rubber and Thermo-plastic
elastomer using Synchrotron X-ray. Strain-induced crystallization, molecular
orientation and their contribution to stress in rubber and TPE

Feng Zuo (grad student)

email: fzuo@ic.sunysb.edu

phone:631-632-7892(o)

office: Rm. 315, Chem. Dept.

research area:Polymer Crystallization, Structure-Property Relationship in Polymers, Performance Polymer Nanocomposites.

Christian Burger

email: cburger@sunysb.edu

phone:631-632-1315(o)

office:Rm.419, Chem. Dept.

research area:small-angle x-ray scattering, wide-angle x-ray scattering, fiber diffraction, light scattering, rheology, structure-property relationships in imperfectly structured
systems, macrolattices, block-copolymers, polyelectrolyte-surfactant complexes, semi-crystalline polymers, high performance polymer fibers, preferred orientation, polymer crystallization, shish-kebab structures, clay composites,disordered lamellar systems, calcified tissue, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers.

Yiming Mao (grad student)

email: zhang4@ic.sunysb.edu              polycarbon@gmail.com

phone:631-632-7892(o)

office: Rm 315 ,Chem. Dept.

research area: Developing matrix for dsDNA and Oligonucleotide Separation.Developing high efficiency polymer for gene delivery.Investigate polyelectrolyte interaction in solution by laser light scattering

Dufei Fang

email: dfang@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

phone: 631-632-7892(o), 631-838-7796(cell)

office: Rm.416, Chem.Dept.

research area: Electrospining Progress, Experiment equipment development

 

Xiaowei Li (grad student)

email: xiaowli@ic.sunysb.edu

phone: 631-632-7892(o)

office: Rm.315, Chem. Dept.

research area: Deformation of polymers and Flow-induced crystallization of polymers.

 

Chirakkal V. Krishnan

email: ckrishnan@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

phone:631-632-6633(o),631-928-5761(h)

office: Rm.314, Chem. Dept.

research area: Electronic properties of biological molecules, double layer
behavior of molecular clusters, bioinorganic drug molecules.

 

Zhaohui Tang 

email: ztang@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

phone: 631-632-7892(o)

office: Rm. 315, Chem. Dept.

research area: thin film nanofibrous composite membranes for water filtration, electrospun scaffold for anti-adhesion

 

 

Lixia Rong

email: lrong@bnl.gov

phone: 631-344-3175(o),631-344-5627(x27c)

office: Rm. 315, Chem. Dept.

research area: X-ray scattering and diffraction of polymers at Beamline X27C at NSLS

 

 

Rafael Muñoz-Espí

email:rmunozespi@sunysb.edu

phone:631-632-1315(o)

office:Rm.419, Chem. Dept.

research area: Polymer-controlled formation of inorganic structures; Polyoxometalates and inorganic clusters; Controlled crystallization of metal oxides; Polymer-inorganic hybrid materials: preparation and characterization; Mineralization processes; Surface-functionalized latex particles, miniemulsion polymerization

 

Jie Zhu

email: jiezhu@bnl.gov

phone: 631-344-3175(o),631-344-5627(x27c)

office: Rm. 315, Chem. Dept.

research area: X-ray scattering and diffraction of polymers at Beamline X27C at NSLS

 

 

Hongyang Ma

email:honma@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

phone: 631-632-7892

office: Room 413, Chem. Dept.

research area: Preparation and application of high flux ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis membranes; Preparation and characterization of polyethylene and fluorocopolymer nanocomposites.

Nan Li (grad student)

email: nanli@ic.sunysb.edu

phone: 631-632-7892(o)

office: Rm. 315, Chem. Dept.

research area: Filtration membranes

Ran Wang (grad student)

email: ranwang.chem@gmail.com

phone: 631-632-7892(o)

office: Rm. 315, Chem. Dept.

research area: Electrospun membrane for filtration, Polymer synthesis

 

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